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Important Question!

If the Pacers drop Pollard off on the Hawks, with no salary in return, willl they then have enough free cap space to sign someone to the full MLE without going over the luxury tax threshold?
That's what a guy is saying on RealGM

It IS worth noting here that the reason why Indy has not used its MLE is because they are JUST BELOW the luxury tax threshold. If they dump Pollard and receive no salary in return--which is possible here, since the Hawks have quite a bit of cap room right now ($6-$7 mil, I believe), they can absorb the contract--the Pacers will suddenly be able to use their entire MLE. Who might they sign? STROMILE SWIFT. Why not? Jerry West might match it, but it's worth a shot, isn't it?

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If that's true, than Indy should do it no questions asked, especialy if they can get a 2nd rounder in return.

Re: Important Question!

We don't have use of the full MLE...already used part of it. I don not believe this bull pucky of Pollard to Atlanta. THey went thru too much while under the cap to take on a bad contract like his. THey could get some decent ones for anything like picks or whatever they might be willing to give up.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..

Re: Important Question!

Wasted half of the MLE on a scrub like Anthony Johnson? Sad.
2.45 million is overpaying for Anthony Johnson. There was younger & more talented for cheaper out there. I would have offered Johnson the LLE (1.4M) and if he didn't accept I would've told his ugly *** to kick mud.
Anyways, I'm assuming the reason Indy's not using their remaining MLE (2.45 million) is to avoid going into luxury tax territory. If we traded Pollard we could use it with no worries.
So which would you rather have?
Someone signed for 2.45 million
Atlanta's 2005 2nd
3.3 million knocked off the cap
or
Scot Pollard?
A no brainer IMO.
Now the question is, who's out there that could be had for 2.45 million? Surely theres better than these 2 big stiff foreigners?

Re: Important Question!

Kstein, even if Indy did spend the other half of their MLE after this trade, their salary cap would still be 3.3 million dollars lighter. So whats your point?
And I'm sure there's some players out there that could provide more than the nothing Pollard provided last year and will more than likely provide again this year.

Re: Important Question!

At this point, even if you WERE able to unload pollard for nothing, management would be better off just saving the cash. There aren't any quality free agent left for that price.

Kstien? So I'm jewish now?

I see a real easy, but completely inappropriate joke....

Putting down the keyboard; walking away...

Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

Re: Important Question!

I dont see the joke.
Does it have something to do with the Jimmy Kimmel citizens burning down Detroit joke and the Holacaust?
And if Keon Clark's healthy and could be had I'd much rather have him than Pollard. The worst he could do is completely suck, which would still make him more valuable than Scot Pollard who completely sucks and then some.

Re: Important Question!

If Keon Clark would sign for the remaining half of the MLE, that would be good value.

That's all we could give him, whether we dropped Pollard for a bag of donuts or not, since we'd still be way over the salary cap.

Dropping Pollard has ZERO effect on the ability to sign someone, other than the fact that total payroll would not increase in the process.
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The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
I'm (maybe) back after being repetedly banned, merely for supporting a different NFL team than do certain forum moderators.

Re: Important Question!

I like the Keon idea, but Hicks or someone said he has real attitude problems when I mentioned it a while back. Anyone else heard that?

"If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you." - Jack Handy

Re: Important Question!

Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

Re: Important Question!

I like the Keon idea, but Hicks or someone said he has real attitude problems when I mentioned it a while back. Anyone else heard that?

He's had some drug arrests/ legal problems in downstate Illinois (his hometown). He's not any worse to have on your team than say, Randolph or Wells. Of course, he's not *that* good of a player, either...

Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

I like the Keon idea, but Hicks or someone said he has real attitude problems when I mentioned it a while back. Anyone else heard that?

He's had some drug arrests/ legal problems in downstate Illinois (his hometown). He's not any worse to have on your team than say, Randolph or Wells. Of course, he's not *that* good of a player, either...

Keon's had that and a few attitude problems over the years... But I'm not really sure if he is that much of a risk to team chemistry... He has the athletic skills to help out at C here... I'm really not sure if he'd sign for half of a MLE though...

Maybe because he was injured all of last year, because no one trusts that he will be healthy and not a detriment, and because it is this late in the signing period we could get him for half the MLE...